3 years ago today

How did he go from this...

to this, so fast?

 

Today is Campbell's birhtday. My baby is three, now you see why I HAD to have another one, a few more years and this kid will be in school. Then what am I going to do? ( Work, um no thanks, I'll stay home a few more years with my sweet baby girl!) I really thought Campbell would be the last and I actually blame it on him that we decided to have another one. He was by far my best baby and he has been such a fun little boy and so entertainging. Every time he would go through a new stage I would think to myself "oh no, this is the last time I am going to have a baby do this." I couldn't let that happen! I was reading back through my old journal from when Campbell was a baby and evey entry said the same thing about Campbell being the happiest baby ever. I still feel that way about him. You cant really tell in this cop picture but he is so happy all the time, I love it! I was looking for a better recent picture of him and even tried to take some today but he is anti-picture right now for some reason. I cant even sneak pictures because my camera makes this beeping noise when it's focused and he can hear that beep a mile away. Anyway, Happy Birthday Campbell, I love you!! Now on to more Halloween pictures.

 

Cooper was a penguin this year. He has had a strong love for all things penguin for about the last year and a half. I was so excited when he said he wanted to be a penguin this year instead of a super hero!!

 

Here is Carter the banana! They both really went outside the norm this year. It made it really easy to spot them in the halloween parade.

 

Chloe wanted to be a clown this year, which was also really fun! They had some really cute girly ones online but when we came across this one we knew it was THE ONE! It was huge on her and had a little fan in the pocket that made it blow up huge. She wore it to dance class on Wednesday, then preschool on Thursday and by trick or treat time Sat night the fan was broken! Oh well, she still looked cute. Her going to dance class had to be the funniest thing ever. There were nine cute little princess/ fairies and one massive clownn! I thought it was pretty fitting.


One more collage of everything else. We had a small party for Campbell with some family before trick or treating on Saturday. Jackson came as an awesome ninja (with double swords!!) Sophia was a ballerina, Carson was a firefighter with an awesome wagon turned into a firetruck to ride in, and Joni came as Dot. By far a highlight of the night. If you haven't seen spaceballs, you should watch it, then you'll get her rad costume. WE had a good night. I cant tell you how glad I am this crazy hectic month is over and that was a good way to end it!

Happy Early Birthday Campbell

 

We gave Cam his present a little early this year. Sharing a birthday with Halloween is awesome but sometimes his birthday gets overlooked. That and we are pushovers! I think this is going to be a video. If not, well then I don't know how to post videos!

A baptism, a blessing, and a few pregnant ladies...

We had a seriously exciting/exhausting weekend about a week and a half ago. Carter and Cooper were baptised (early) Saturday morning. We had lots of family and friends there, not to mention donuts and chocolate milk after! The next morning (even earlier) we went to Zoe's baby blessing. (That is Billys sister Emilee and her husband TJ's baby, in case anyone doesn't know that) It doesn't really sound like the makings of an exhausting weekend but it was. Maybe it's the pregnancy or that we decided to go to a football game friday night, I don't know but it wore me right out. It was worth it though, you can always catch up on sleep later! I wish we would have gotten a few group pictures of everyone but we didn't so here is what we did get!

 

Somehow I didn't get any pictures of Zoe, duh. SO I thought I would include this awesome one where Billy decided to cut her head off for some reason! If you want to see how adorable she really is you can click on Emilee and TJ's link to the right. This is actually the pregnant lady picture, or recently pregnant. I am the furthest along, Melissa is 6 weeks behind me, and Debbie is 6 weeks behind her! Okay I guess Emilee is actually the furthest along because she obviously had her baby already but we threw her in the picture to remind the rest of us what the end result is!

 

Needless to say we had lots of good food over the weekend, this was by far Campbells favorite part! A brownie with whip cream piled high on top!

 

Here are my four (for now) sweet children. I am so proud of Carter and Cooper, they are WONDERFUL big brothers and great examples to all of us. I want to share a quick story that happened after the boys got baptised because I think it is super cute! A few months ago Cooper and his friend (name withheld!) got in major trouble for killing a bird that they found. I hate to assume things but from the little bit of eavesdropping I did, it sounded more like a torturing. This is not the cute part by the way. I tried to take advantage of the opportunity to teach my boys about taking care of and loving all of Heavenly Fathers creations. (Except spiders and snakes, or anything gross or harmful) Anyway after the baptism, I was in the bathroom helping the boys change and Cooper looked at me and said, "Mom, finally I don't have to feel bad about that bird that we killed." Silly Mom starts to cry. ( and might be getting misty just retelling the story) I just loved knowing that he really understood what it meant to be baptised. You know how it goes, you teach your kids things and wonder if they get it. Then when they prove that they do get it, it blows your mind! Anyway, sweet boys, I couldn't imagine loving my children anymore!

 

Carter, Billy, and Cooper. I'm not usually one to share my feelings on my blog, don't know why, it's just not me I guess but I just need to say that I am so grateful for my lovely family. I couldn't ask for a better husband, he is such a fantastic father and really takes care of me and the kids. Everyday when he gets home from work the kids all start yelling and run over to give him a huge hug! Seriously, everyday. If that doesn't tell you something I don't know what does. I am so excited to have a new baby in our family. I am only 24 weeks but I feel huge and extremely uncomfortable already. It doesn't matter though, I LOVE being pregnant and the thought of having a new baby makes me smile a thousand times a day. Sometimes I feel like wowzers, 5 kids is a lot, can I do it? But I know I can because this is really what I love doing, I love being a mom and staying home with these sweet little children! Okay enough of that business, let me just blame all this extra feeling and emotion on the pregnancy! Thanks for listening, if anyone did!